White Problems – Typos on Menus

The Article:

The Problem:

What should you do when you find typos on a restaurant menu?

The Solution:

The presence of an improper apostrophe on a menu can ruin an otherwise delicious meal for a white person. Jane Black recommends asking for an extra copy of the menu, taking out a pen and marking all of the mistakes. When you are finished, you should then leave the restaurant with the hope that the chef will see the mistake and correct it before your next visit. This is considered the best solution since it allows you to use proper grammar while simultaneously avoiding confrontation (#128 in the book).

The other option is to simply recognize that the typos, while egregious, do not prevent actual meaningful communication on these menus. This would allow you to escape the tag of “elitist,” “pretentious,” or “banned from eating here for the rest of your life.”

Final Verdict:

It is the duty of every white person to correct typos. It is worth the risk of banishment to deliver proper grammar to those who need it.

Someone once told me that there is a typo on every menu. I don’t know if people do it intentionally (have other people heard that?), but ever since, it’s like a game to see how fast I can find the typo. And you know what? Every time I look for one, I seem to be able to find one.

What rational being seriously gives a crap about typos in a menu? Really, are you there to eat or to be a lunatic English teacher? As long as the information in the menu is understandable so that I can find what I want, all I care about is the quality of the food and the quality of the service, and that’s it. Getting worked up over spelling and grammar in what is essentially just a list is sheer foolishness. Eat already, ya durned idgits.

Although, it would be cool to see some chef put his boot up some obsessive’s butt for pointing out typos in the menu. I would come back to that restaurant even if I didn’t really like the food. 😉

While I refrain from actually making corrections, it drives me nuts to see typos (or blatant misspellings) on menus. My favorite is white board at the sandwich place next to my office that advertises a “bagel with lochs and cream cheese”. One of these days I’m going to go in there and ask them how they’ve managed to get a Scottish lake to fit on a bagel.

WHY? You know what the fuck they’re talking about. Don’t you have anything better to obsess over, you idiot? I feel sorry for your boyfriend. I bet HE’S the one who wants to run screaming into the night. Hose bag. I hate you. Die.

And then the chef comes running out, finds out who marked up his/her menu, tracks the perp down, has the waitstaff hold the offending grammer geek down, and then stuffs the damned menu down said geek’s throat.

There’s always at least one white person in the group who can read the other language (they think) and will point out the typos. All white people know enough French to get through a menu, and most know something of at least one other language – Italian, German, or a Scandinavian language. If the group is at an Asian restaurant, chances are someone knows some Japanese or Chinese. Hindi or Tai, however, are a problem.

Typographical errors are *not* grammatical errors. White prescriptivists and pedants, should at least, get a linguistics degree, because forgetting to punctuate is *not* making an error in syntax, morphology, phonology and so forth.

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it is not an error of grammar — it is an error of orthography.

That is because every native speaker knows the full grammar of his or her native language. Biological evolution ensured this. Not every native speaker however, knows the conventions of orthography.

Please do not call omissions of commas grammatical errors. That is an insult to native speakers everywhere, since native speakers do not make grammatical mistakes out of ignorance, but rather slippage, and malformed orthography != malformed grammar.

That is, you do not teach someone grammar. You teach them how to analyse the grammar of their own language to prevent slippage.

Pedants who insist that the masses remain uneducated of some prescriptivist rule in grammar remain ignorant of both evolutionary psychology and linguistics.

OMG I KNOW!!!!!!!!!1!1!! How uncivilized!1!! Those people shouldn’t even be serving us!! a-holes should all just die awesome deaths or at least be blinded by hot bacon grease for thinking they could serve us with such improper manners!!!

i used to do layout and design for a bunch of restaurants’ menus. the main reason there are typos is that restaurant managers are usually cheap @$$holes who haggle the price down to next-to-nothing and then take 6 months to pay the final invoice. i ain’t fixin that sh*t for free.

my favorite was when the guy from kinko’s called me wanting to know the password on the PageMaker zip file he’d been given by my (now former-) client. he was, you guessed it, being asked to fix typos.

i told him he’d get the password only when my invoices were all paid in full…

I worked at a French restaraunt in college… White people who caught out somewhat intentional typos (being in Ohio, we sometimes opted for phonetic spellings)… To impress the table and cow the waiter making $2.14 an hour server min wage, they felt obligated to tell me they studied french and lived in France for a year… Further our salade niçoise (where we eggregiously left out the “e” in “salade”) was NOTHING like what they experienced when they would sup on it in little cafes in Paris! (Apparently the French use canned tuna – “But GOOD canned tuna!” whereas we used sushi-grade tuna….)

What did they want me to do? Rip up the menus, promise a reprint, and replace the quality tuna for the more authentic canned shit?

Interestingly, only white women who spent a year after college “studying art” (or what the hell ever) ever pointed this out. That and some Frog who left a $3.00 tip on a $55.00 bill. I could not help myself – as that asshole left I used my high school foreign language and bid him: Auf wiedersehen, mein Herr!

I will not call omissions of commas grammatical errors. I must say, however, we all need a little slippage once in a while. I mean, what would life be without good food, good drink and a little slippage for dessert? Of course, life would a lot better if we could rid ourselves of nit picking obsessive know-it-all’s.

Typos! What about font abuse? Too many fonts spoil many a good menu. I love to comment on bad fonts out in the world and menus have some of the worst offenses. Pair the typos and fonts with poorly shot pictures of food and you have the trifecta.

hehe — so true! i loved when people would insist on ALL CAPS ITALIC SCRIPT FONTS which pretty much renders any text completely unreadable.

are we designing a menu or a fucking ransom note here?

and people would literally say to me, “can you font that up for me” — like what does “fonting” something up actually mean? everyone seemed to have their own definition. at some point if i “punch up”, “font up”, “bold up” every piece of text on the menu then nothing stands out. but no one cared.

This is sooo a white thing, and mostly a white person blog, I bet is only whitey responding now. Its should be a blog for black people to know what white people like, dam sure you’ll never find a black person correcting a menu, because they already know the menu back and forth even if they can’t read it.

How does someone end up with a job that pays you to do pretty much nothing? I don’t how much it pays, but if I could kick it at home, drink beer, play Xbox 360, watch movies, and once in a while pump out an article about some nonsense and get paid for it, I’d definitely have to think about it. I wonder if the person who wrote this article has a degree. I mean, what degree do I need to do nothing and make a living at it? Maybe I’ll check out DeVry and see if they have the BA in Doing Nothing at All–hell, maybe I’ll go for the Masters or Doctorate.

Seriously, Indiana University offers a degree in General Studies. A BA in bloody General Studies! Hey, I got a degree in studying, I can study your ass under the table, man, I know a lot of general stuff. Next semester I’m going for the big one: Master of Thingies; with a Masters in Thingies, I’ll rule the world!

The thing is, mostly they’re not typos. They are blatant misspellings for which lazy idiots could not open a dictionary to correct–or to ensure it was spelled correctly. Typos are a finger slipping on the keyboard and writing “teh” instead of “the”. Or using multiple exclamation points and slipping a “1” in.

Then there’s the apostrophe catastrophe. That’s just punishable stupidity. The rules are simple. People are just lazy.

Typos on menus are simply unacceptable. The menu is the most important marketing tool a restaurant has and a poorly written or designed menu lowers the value or cache of the restaurant. I don’t care if it is a foreign restaurant…there are plenty of editors around who would love to proof a menu. It’s sloppy and lazy.

Typos and grammatical errors are one of my biggest pet peeves — whether they’re on a menu, in a movie, or in song lyrics. It’s gotten to the point where I scare myself and embarrass myself regularly when I point them out. Most of my friends aren’t “white” in the sense that people described on this blog are “white.”

Here’s an example of a lyric that makes me cringe every time I hear it. In the Talking Heads song “Don’t Worry About the Government,” one of the lines is: “I think of the people that are working for me.” It should be “people WHO are working for me.” And the Talking Heads are supposed to be literate …

Of course, an advanced level white person will never point out English errors on a menu at a “legit” Asian/Chinese restaurant to the servers. On the contrary, advanced whites are annoyed by people who try to tell Chinese people how to “fix” their menus and signs in restaurants.
“Excuse me, it’s ‘fried food,’ not ‘flied food’.” That is about the least white thing that a person could say.

Nascar-level whites, however, are ready to nuke all of Asia to respond to such disrespect of the American language. Nascar whites do not see anything wrong with disrespecting other Satanic tongues such as French or Arabic.

Typos are different from improper grammar, though. I think the grammar bothers white people much more. It’s the difference between pointing out that you’re a klutz and can’t type properly versus pointing out that you have managed to be agressively ignorant enough to become literate while failing to learn basic grammar.

In other words the truth that seems to be eluding you is that “entre’” means “main course”, but other countries have a different usage, huh? Holy crap I can’t wait til you learn that in England a “saloon” is a 4-door car. What next, a bison rant?

I can handle a little typo or misspelling here and there, but if a menu is set in a bad font (usually one that’s too decorative or “quirky”, although oftentimes Comic Sans is the culprit) I find it terribly distracting and I can barely read the menu. It makes me lose my appetite for a minute. Then I get over it.

But really, I’d rather the chef or manager just printed out a menu from Word set in Arial, than hire their nephew who took a graphic design class a few years ago and has a pirated copy of Photoshop and knows where the “cool” free font websites are.

Have you heard about the guy that goes across america and corrects typos on signs, menus, store windows etc? Its really funny because he has like this fanny pack with all the materials to correct signs, including different colored markets, white out, pens, window markets etc.

Im going to start my own sandwich shop called TYPO and everything on the menu will be spelled incorrectly. The fun in the shop will be trying to figure out what your ordering because everything from “white bread” to “turkey” will be spelled like Whight Bred and Terkee. Sounds like unintelligent fun to me. And everything will be 15 dollars.

While I’ve read this blog religiously for some time and usually do nothing but laugh my ass off, I, for the first time, am embarrassed that people are actually writing articles on this and wasting time and space.

“Mine has always been tamer. No costume. No drama. In my fantasy, I enter a restaurant, order and sweetly ask the waiter if I can “hold on to the menu” during dinner. Then, using a distinctive purple pen, I discreetly copy-edit the descriptions of the dishes.”

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

This might as well say, “while other people may have idiosyncrasies about them, let me spend the next ten minutes of your time telling you indirectly why I am interesting, pompous, and original.”

I can just picture this woman at her Apple computer with a coffee, a scarf, and a knowing what’s best for poor people.

I think it’s hilarious that, according to the article writer, it’s okay if ethnic or foreign restaurants make grammatical errors. Oh, they’re not white, it’s okay if they can’t spell! But god forbid a white person make a mistake on a menu!

Hilarious how according to the article writer, it’s okay if foreign or ethnic restaurants make grammatical errors. Oh, they’re not white, it’s okay if they can’t spell! I don’t expect them to! But god forbid a white person make a mistake on the menu!

I am the opposite of the pedant; but it was hardly a nitpick, but a fundamental principle of linguistics. Grammatical errors come through either two things: from a misinformed non-native speaker or through slippage of the mind. Native speakers do not commit grammatical errors out of ignorance. This is an important distinction to make, as being mistaken in this area perpetuates an ignorance of its own that justifies prescriptivist language bigotry of every sort (“English as a national language,” Eurocentrism, prejudice against language diversity, perpetuation of prescriptivist pedantry in general, etc.) A *scientific* principle that has to be clarified.

Typos are certainly upsetting to any literate white person. I persoanlly went on a mission while in Dubai, Turkey, and Mexico making corrections to menus, writing the correct spelling of works as they should have appeared on store signs and, some case finding myself having substitute words. While one never enegages in good acts for the sake of karma, I could feel my good karma rising, even as I left some store owners a bit baffled.

Typos are most annoying when they appear in books published by the big American and British publiushing houses. They have no excuse whatsoever, but they have gotten sloppy in recent years, publishing content received from the writer “as is”.

I have noticed that it is only white people who are insecure in some profound sense who seem to need to point out the typos to the staff. Especially, if the restaurant is located in a place where the correct spellings are (as you suggest) sometimes foregone in order to be a bit more intelligible to the normal clientele.

If the food is good, it doesn’t much matter what it’s called, and if it’s not good, the most assiduous care to the linguistic detail of the menu will not improve the taste.

It’s another thing entirely to note (and perhaps even mock a bit) the misspellings among a group of friends, but in my experience, it rarely happens unless the food does not meet expectations — in which case it’s seen as a part of some level of pretension that’s all of a piece.

Oh for God’s sake – I’m a white female, college-educated, and a magazine editor and even *I* don’t care if there are spelling and punctuation errors on a menu. Bring me lovely food, and quickly–I don’t care about your writing skills!

Get a grip!

I’m happy if there’s enough light in the restaurant with which to read the menu in the first place.

I actually adore the typos at my favorite restaurants. I feel it adds to the authenticity and ambience. Asian restaurants and “Southern Cooking” establishments have very peculiar typos that are especially fun. I don’t need to correct those. Now if you are not a foreign or specialty restaurant, watch out, I’m white!

Crap designers who work for a low rate (get “haggled-down”) then get pissed about it and produce crap work. You hand over work with typos?!

Talk about bringing the value of the profession down in more ways than one! He’s probably thinking poorly of you, why pay promptly when there are errors in it?

I should’ve just written you off when you mentioned that you use PageMaker dude. But it is these kind of practices that keep people thinking they can just get stuff designed by some goof with a mac and CS3 (in your case, not-so-much) for 20 bucks an hour and forget about the bigger picture.

Your job as a designer is to educate clients on their communication needs, not create more issues for them by slapping a drop-shadowed, gradient-happy, logo-enlarged cheap flyer on them.

Authenticity, eh? So typos on the menu of a “Southern cooking establishment” authentically make the south look like a bunch of dipshits and Asian restaurants look like first-generation ignorant immigrants.

All it takes is some proofreading. That’s it. You can even find proofreaders on Craigslist. I would be embarrassed if I took someone to a restaurant and its menu was riddled with typos.

Well that may be true but a lot of street and commercial graphics from Latin America and India have a vibrancy, strength and attention to detail that N. American commercial typography hasn’t seen since the fifties (of course there are exceptions).

My favorite situation is when “Live and Let Die” came out and Sir Paul was LAMBASTED for “in this ever-changing world in which we live in.” d00d set everyone straight and basically told ’em all they were a bunch-o-dumbasses, that’s not what he sang.

I don’t mind typos on menus. For example, at a mexican resturant if they misspell “sauce” it indicates that the proprietors of said establishment have not been fully assimilated therefore making their cusine more authentico!

good. Take all this energy worrying about commas and grammatical errors, go get yourself an education in a field that is helpful to society, and go get yourself a better paying job so you can get your sorry ass off of food stamps.

I used to work in a restaurant where we wrote specials on a chalk board. We used to intentionally put typos on it just to see how many life-less douche bags pointed it out. Sometimes they even asked for chalk to correct it for us. I wanted to say “Eat your food and shut the f-ck up”…but I didn’t because I’m white and I avoid confrontation.

My favorite menu typo was at a Japanese restaurant in South Norwalk. They served Fried Crams. I could just imagine the proprietor reading the menu copy to the printer over the phone. My wife and I refer to clams as crams to this day.

It is the kind of question that makes you dumber to answer. The average clientele of said establishment weren’t into correcting menus, but they could probably win a good deal of international rib eating competitions.

well it was the 90s then and Quark was still “new”… and InDesign was still a dream in some Object-Oriented programmers head. PageMaker was pretty much the gold standard back then.

you know, you try to bring the whole profession up but at the end of the day, they beat it out of you. they really do. you don’t *start* jaded, you end up that way from years of coke-snorting assholes in Porsche’s robbing you blind when you’re trying to put yourself thru school.

whatever though — i finished engineering school, got a great job, and pretty much only think of those days when i see all caps bold italic script fonts on a lunch menu. ahh, the good old days 🙂

The greasy taco is the most overrated dog food item that exists. Someone tell me, if the mexican national dish is meat from cheap belly cuts, like the strip steak, then what they hell do they do with the prized loin and rib cuts?

Send them to France for chateaubriand? Do mexican butchers even know anything?

I suspect grammar often doesn’t directly make anything clearer. When someone makes a grammatical mistake, it raises mental alarm bells, and is annoying, but I suspect it’s a throwback from more prehistoric days when identifying humans who were outside your “tribe” was important.

The other thing is that grammar is more of a reliability check — the equivalent of an md5 hash of a message. There are many aspects of grammar that serve to *verify* comprehension — grammar is redundant information that serves as a CRC check. Note that we humans have our language faculties evolved for speaking, not writing, consequently, and you note that we don’t make frequent mistakes in our natural spoken language.

In our hunter-gatherer days we had to communicate against noise or shout over hills, and phonemes in the same manner or place of articulation are similar and thus easily mistaken. Grammar always occurs in context — note that if someone shouted to you “corn” 200 metres away, you could easily mistake it for “horn” and vice versa. (/k/ and /h/ are similar phonemes, and the plosive nature of /k/ makes it sound almost like /h/ at long distances). But grammar has it such that when a fellow nomad shouts, “They’re selling corn 5 miles from here!” you know he did not say, “They’re selling horn 5 miles from here!” Why? Because sentence two was ungrammatical and likely to have been not said — it lacks a determiner and/or plural inflection that is necessary for “horn”.

Today however, grammar can be somewhat of a pain. It’s useful to check the integrity of messages. It should not be used as a tool of elitism. The “we should improve our grammar so our communication is more clear” argument is somewhat bullshit.

Native speakers do not “improve their grammar” — they are already equipped with all the grammatical rules of their native language, acquired from childhood, even without schooling.

An ungrammatical sentence doesn’t *directly* make a sentence less clear — it simply gives you less tools to verify that your interpretation of the sentence is a valid one (than a grammatical sentence would).

Recogntion of such facts is important if we want to eliminate language-based prejudice.

dude
wtf are talking about?
that´s poetic license, song lyrics are about getting something across to the listener, in this case there are some words that SOUND better, it doesn´t mean david byrne is stupid.

Yeah the message is that blacks and other non-whites are sloppy and incapable of so much as even producing a proofread menu. Pretty racist. Myself, I think it’s worthwhile to care about “doing things right” – it’s thanks to precisely this ‘obsession’, which other races seemingly denigrate, that planes can fly and this Internet thing works and so on. If I ever start being sloppy in any of my productive endeavours I hope somebody shoots me.

If their professors were more concerned about teaching than in improving ‘self esteem’ not only would they be competent at proof-reading, they might actually find a way to use their degree to put food on the table.

Although the fact that they can just download their essays and thesis from the internet might also have something to do with it.

An Arts degree is a piece of paper stating that the bearer spent years of their life drinking large amounts of alcohol, probably while smoking enough weed to cause people to mistake their dorm for a fog generator.

As a professional restaurant critic, I prefer to “out” menu typos in a public forum–like in a restaurant review printed in a newspaper! Ok, not really–I don’t make a habit of it– but I did do it once and many readers emailed me and said I was being mean. But the grammar was so horrible!

What always bothers me is people who pronounce “often” wrong. No, it’s not pronounced “off-ten”. What’s ironic is that it’s always people that would consider themselves well read or who have an arts degree who mispronounce this word. It’s as if they want to prove that they can read and spell, so they pronounce the word as it’s spelled thinking that they’re in on a little secret that the “t” is actually a hard consonant that is to be pronounced when saying the word. I bet that Ms. Black says “off-ten” quite a bit.

Go fuck yourself. Mistakes happen and at any good restaurant that changes their menu regularly mistakes, or should I say ‘typos’ will occur. Does it make the food taste any different? I doubt it. Publish your book and keep being an asshole…I’ll keep reading your blog, but the creativity is definatly waning.

seriously? omg you are all racists. iq tests are merely so that whites can revel in their ‘intelligence’ in ‘comparison’ to others. it’s like the SAT test. it isn’t designed to be fair to everyone. grow up.

actually, the mispronunciation of the word has only become accepted because of white people who like to prove that they can read by pronouncing the word as it is spelled. through wide use the mispronunciation it has become accepted. . . it’s similar to people who mispronounce the name of ever street named after a German in the city that I live thinking that a “k” before an “n” is always silent. I get it, you know how to spell “knife”, however, Knapp is not pronounced “nap”, and the lead singer of Dire Straits is not “Mark Nopfler”

Stuff White People Like: Being Financially Independent, Community Oriented, Socially Conscious, Law Abiding, Well Mannered, and Not Being a Burden on Society. In other words, generally things needed to have a productive society.

Unlike most minorities.

Censor me and I will become offended! On behalf of a minority, of course.

This post was spell checked and has proper grammar. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, whitey.

You have several sentence fragments. If having a verb and a subject (whether implied or stated) is not necessary to have a sentence, then why would any punctuation at all be necessary in any sentence whatsoever?

Your post has been checked and does not contain proper grammar. Maybe you should know what proper grammar is before beginning to speak about it.

Why aren’t we happy there still ARE people who CAN notice when something is incorrect?
A little aside, it also annoys me to no end these companies that are shortening their names to this sucky toddler-speak.

Washington Mutual became WaMu
Beverages and More – BevMo
National Geographic – Nat-Geo

“Over the years, white people have gone through a number of official cars. In the 1980s it was the Saab and the Volvo. By the 1990s it was the Volkswagen Jetta or a Subaru 4WD stastion wagon. But these days, there is only one car for white people. One car that defines all that they love: the Toyota Prius.”

Never discount the possibility that the restaurant staff have already noticed the typo(s), but the manager (who wrote it) is too much of a shit to care! In such cases, I recommend just writing on the menu you were given.

Your day’s never over,
Your work’s never through!
Though you’ve tamed most of the heathen and the barbarians too!
‘Massa, thanks for ‘lectricity and the (Ah So!) internet too!
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!

They tried to say that ‘you can’t jump’.
But, you made it to the moon without having to dunk.
You might not have much rhythm,
But you can (steal) carry a good tune,
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!

You made it through civil rights and women’s lib too,
You’ve been through a lot, good buddy, no wonder you can sing the blues!
If the world’d open their eyes, they’d see that in the past you’re not really stuck,
Even though you still fly a rebel flag, at least it’s on a Japanese pickup truck!

Black may be beautiful, and tan may be grand,
But white’s still the color of the BIG BOSS MAN!
’Ask not’ (J.F.K.) whether it’s true,
WHITEMAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!

The world doesn’t understand your level of stress,
Every minute’s a Malox moment, but that’s the price of success!
You watch your laptop for the first sign of loss,
Well, it’s time you paid the cost to be the boss!
Don’t drop the ball now and lose the home court advantage,
Or we’ll all have to say the pledge of allegiance in Spanish!(‘Press Uno for English’)
Only you can straighten out the world’s condition,
‘Cause you were properly conceived in the missionary position!
Stand up like a white man and do your white duty,
Or we’ll all be blown to hell by sheik your booty!
ASK NOT whether, Hillary or Obama can rule,
WHITE MAN, THE WHOLE WORLD’S DEPENDING ON YOU!

I find this blog and the concept behind it extremely offensive. Where does some punk from Toronto get off as being an expert on anything. Why is it okay to denegrate white people and white culture. Newsflash… it’s not!! Quit trying to masquerade as some pseudo-intellectual comedian, why don’t you try respecting our rights? Or, why don’t you insult Black, Latino and Asian cultures? Becasue you might be labeled a racist? You are a racist, just not in the classical sense!

white people sure do like appearing clever. i as a moderately clever white person would know.
the guy who created this site is clever and displaying his cleverness to all. my sending in my $.02 to this makes me feel clever.

First, let me get this off my chest. Go blow yourself Uncle Hambone! I could hear the rap-style beat in the background as I was reading your little rhyme. Clever aren’t you? So unique! Think fast Sambone! How does a stereotype become a stereotype? And yes, the rest of the world does depend on us whiteys, whether you like it or not. White people are awesome! We invented the Internet so that we wouldn’t have to sit on the porch in the heat of the day and ‘holla’ at each other.

Now for Christian Lander. Before you label me a redneck racist, let me save you the trouble. I want to put together a set of pages called ‘What Black People Like,’ followed by a dictionary (phonetically laid out) so that we can see all of the unique and cool ways of fucking up ordinary English. I’ve noticed that black people don’t like to pronounce r’s and t’s in easy to pronounce words such as ‘rest.’ Yo, brotha, gi me duh res uh dat samwij! After that I want a White History Month, a separate awards show for white performers and other so-called artists, and I want federal funding for a White National Caucus in Congress.

Now for both of you. I guess the real problem here is actually white people. Let me explain. Whitey likes entertainment of all kinds. Especially music and sports. We have more money, on average, than anyone else, so we like to be entertained when we come home from our stressful, successful white careers. What better thing to do than put on a CD of Fitty Cent or turn on a basketball game full of players that don’t look like us. You see, white people are not smart enough to turn off the ball game or prevent their snot-nosed, spoiled whelps from buying the cultural pollution called Rap (and Hip-Hop, whatever). I would wager that most of the ballgame tickets and CD’s of Fitty are purchased by whitey. So, just remember this. As you are rising up as a people and throwing off the shackles of oppression, a good many of you have whitey to thank for it.

Now, was that racist enough for you? It is so easy to make fun of someone else. Easy to get offended isn’t it? Your rag web page is nothing but racist vitriol disguised as humor. Too bad white people aren’t smart enough to not purchase it.

I think White Dude above is deeply troubled, clearly not American because the average American white or black has a morbid fear for the letter ‘T’.

Whitey, the world doesn’t depend on you, you rode on the back of the black man to earn the money you think to have today. Remember the Opium war? Or are you too afraid of that history? You may not owe Africa trillions in debt, but you owe, guess who,… can you?

So, smart as you are honkey, you wallow in debt buying music by black people with money that you think you have, but don’t.

The Internet you are so quick to claim is based on the fundamentals of Ifa Philosophies. Ifa? Yeah go to the Internet and see what it can teach you about that.

You are far behind the times and clearly far too unintelligent to make a near decent argument about the worth of the white man.

Study Confucius, Ifa, Voodoo, and learn about Orunmila. Learn about world history and the oldest civilasations in the world. Learn how nations were built on the principles of honour and preservation.

After you have reviewed these, then we can better discuss the value of the whiteman or the lack therof.

What has your dumb ass been smoking? You believe that the internet is based on African mysticism and scientology? I will not dignify L. Ron Hubbard’s delusions with a capital S. Voodoo? Are you on crack?

And let me ask you a question, Earth. Just open your arrogant mind to the world around you and look at every place that Caucasions don’t dominate. What do you see. Poverty. Squalor. Every form of degenerate practices that there are. Backward ass religion. No science and very little industry. There’s also typically a whole lot of malnourished children because these people would rather bring a child into the world to starve than to practice birth control.

But, Earth, you may rest in this. Most of us Whiteys are asleep at the switch and the non-Whiteys are going to eventually out-breed us in our own countries. Then we will get to see who takes advantage of who. Then we will all be African. In other words, f***ed.

One more thing, Earthy. Rethink your assessment of ancient civilizations. A good many of them practiced human sacrifice, cannibalism, child sacrifice, and the worship of animal and celestial deities. Their cultures were going nowhere. It took the Europeans (yeah, you guessed it, Whitey) to bring real science, industry, and progress to the world. Confucius, Ifa, Voodoo, and Orunmila? I would laugh if I didn’t feel so damn sorry for you.